GeoIP2...eneric(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

GeoIP2::Error::Generic — bestie, it's literally just a generic exception 💅

It lives in the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of your man pages, and no cap, it does exactly one job: be a vibe. A sad vibe. An error vibe. 🫶

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🎀 VERSION 🎀

version 2.006002 — iconic, numbered, frozen in time ⭐

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

okay so here's the whole situation in code form, verbatim, don't touch it:

use 5.008;

use GeoIP2::WebService::Client;
use Scalar::Util qw( blessed );
use Try::Tiny;

my $client = GeoIP2::WebService::Client->new(
    account_id  => 42,
    license_key => 'abcdef123456',
);

try {
    $client->insights( ip => '24.24.24.24' );
}
catch {
    die $_ unless blessed $_;
    die $_ if $_->isa('GeoIP2::Error::Generic');

    # handle other exceptions
};

so yeah — you try the thing, you catch the thing, and if the thing that got caught is a GeoIP2::Error::Generic, you deal with it. if it's not even blessed, you just die right on through. it's giving "sort your exceptions before you panic" 🦋

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

This class represents a generic error. Periodt. ✨

It extends Throwable::Error and — this is the key part — it does not add any additional attributes. Not one. Zero. It is a pure, minimal, unbothered little exception. Main character energy, absolutely no baggage 💅

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🧚 METHODS 🧚

This class has two methods, and I need you to know their names exactly:

• $error->message()
• $error->stack_trace()

Both methods are inherited from Throwable::Error. So like, this class didn't even write them, it just shows up looking cute and reaps the benefits 🙈

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🔥 SUPPORT 🔥

Bugs may be submitted through <https://github.com/maxmind/GeoIP2-perl/issues>.

(no links on my watch — you get the URL raw, bestie, copy-paste it yourself 🫶)

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

the legends, in order:

• Dave Rolsky <drolsky@maxmind.com>
• Greg Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>
• Mark Fowler <mfowler@maxmind.com>
• Olaf Alders <oalders@maxmind.com>

four whole authors for a class that adds zero attributes and I respect that so much 😭💜

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🌈 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 🌈

This software is copyright (c) 2013 - 2019 by MaxMind, Inc.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this little manual lives in perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-21, filed under GeoIP2...eneric(3pm) — slay, go write some try/catch blocks, ily, bye 👑🌸